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title: In time it came about that every house where there were children, or… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In time it came about that every house where there were children, or a reasonable hope of them, had secret cubby-holes back of the thick adobe walls; with little doors which shut flush with the wall and were also plastered with adobe, so that when they were shut a stranger--even if he were a sharp-e
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 36

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In time it came about that every house where there were children, or a reasonable hope of them, had secret cubby-holes back of the thick adobe walls; with little doors which shut flush with the wall and were also plastered with adobe, so that when they were shut a stranger--even if he were a sharp-eyed Indian--would never dream of their existence.

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**Who acts:** way, children, little doors, child, men · **What happens:** come, be, have, flush, plaster, shut · **To what, where:** reasonable hope, secret cubby holes, men

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This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, children, little doors, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:32:36
# text = In time it came about that every house where there were children, or a reasonable hope of them, had secret cubby-holes back of the thick adobe walls; with little doors which shut flush with the wall and were also plastered with adobe, so that when they were shut a stranger--even if he were a sharp-eyed Indian--would never dream of their existence.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	cubby	cubby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	adobe	adobe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
37	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	flush	flush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux:pass	_	_
44	also	also	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	plastered	plaster	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	adobe	adobe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
49	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	54	mark	_	_
50	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	fixed	_	_
51	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	54	advmod	_	_
52	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux:pass	_	_
54	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	conj	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	even	even	ADV	RB	_	66	advmod	_	_
59	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	66	mark	_	_
60	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	66	nsubj	_	_
61	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	66	cop	_	_
62	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
63	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	63	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
66	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	70	aux	_	_
69	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	70	advmod	_	_
70	dream	dream	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	45	parataxis	_	_
71	of	of	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
72	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	73	nmod:poss	_	_
73	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | way | a reasonable hope of men |  |  | time | about that; with little doors and shut flush; every house *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about that=Location |
| 2 | **be** | past | children |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | way *not said here* | secret cubby holes of the thick adobe walls |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient |
| 4 | **flush** |  | little doors and shut flush |  |  |  |  | with the wall | tree rules |
| 5 | **plaster** | past · passive | way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with adobe | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: with adobe=Theme |
| 6 | **shut** | past · passive |  | men *= man* |  |  |  | a stranger *obj* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | child |  |  |  |  | indian *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **dream** | would |  |  |  |  |  | of men's existence | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **hope** |  | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
| 10 | **exist** |  | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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